Volunteer leadership programs are a good chance to develop your skills and gain vital experience. Here are the top ten opportunities to consider.

Volunteering as a student mentor can help you develop the leadership and interpersonal skills you need to advance in your career. Spending time as a student mentor can also help you cultivate the appropriate skills to take on leadership volunteer opportunities which can open doors for you in your personal and professional life.

Minds Matter Bay Area offers enriching mentoring volunteer opportunities. Volunteer to be a mentor today!

Our mentors are the lifeblood of our program. What they do for our students is so much more than test prep and help with college applications – although they do that as well.

At Minds Matter San Francisco, we’re lucky to have a community filled with extraordinary volunteers. In the midst of a pandemic, our 200+ volunteers came together as mentors, instructors, pod leaders—and much more—to serve the students in our community.

In this post, we’ll be highlighting two seniors, Leydi Agustin and Derek Wong, and volunteer Sean O’Sullivan, who raised $3,700 during our Holiday Giving Campaign!

Diana Lu is a former minds matter mentee. Over the holidays, she wrote this heartfelt letter to express her gratitude. We couldn’t be happier to see the impact we can make on a student’s life.

Nearly three years ago, Zhi Yang was 16 and a high school junior at Thurgood Marshall in San Francisco’s Bay View district.

Erica Chan first heard about Minds Matter SF because Zhi, a MMSF alumnus, now a student at Hamilton College, was the best friend of her sister. Today, Erica is glad she took the recommendation.

This is Christine Deakers. She’s California born-and-bred (Go Bears!) living in San Francisco for a few years now. Today she's a professional storyteller as a writer and content marketing manager for technology companies at an integrated communications agency called Eastwick.

By Iris Siguenza, MMSF Junior Mentee